Solus was one of my favourite distros last year, so I was eager to see the latest alpha release (number 8 ) of Solus 2 was like. Sadly I have to declare myself disappointed with it at this stage.

It seems very unfinished. The devs are clearly going for a lightweight distro this time round, which is good, and with a new desktop unique to Solus, but the whole thing seemed unready for prime time. I couldn't find any way of installing new packages, there's no announcement of the new alpha release on the Solus website at the time of posting with any usage information, and no installer either.

My advice is to wait for the next one and stick with Puppy in the meantime - either Slacko or Carolina are good enough now to be your sole desktop (if you want them to). Or if you really like Solus, 1.3 (Eveline) is still very usable and can be updated from the Debian repos whenever this is needed.

Finally got around to trying the latest Solus alpha..... for what little is incuded (pretty stripped down} things seem to be working well.

Code:

live@solusos ~
$ uname -r
3.10.6
live@solusos ~
$

To install packages (repository is fairly empty} I had to update the repo by running pisi -ur in the treminal .......to install Geany I ran pisi -it geany as root of course. Pisi is a very capable package manager , ported from Pardus , but it takes a minute to learn the correct commands. I recommend starting with pisi help.

Solus was one of my favourite distros last year, so I was eager to see the latest alpha release (number 8 ) of Solus 2 was like. Sadly I have to declare myself disappointed with it at this stage.

It seems very unfinished. The devs are clearly going for a lightweight distro this time round, which is good, and with a new desktop unique to Solus, but the whole thing seemed unready for prime time. I couldn't find any way of installing new packages, there's no announcement of the new alpha release on the Solus website at the time of posting with any usage information, and no installer either.

My advice is to wait for the next one and stick with Puppy in the meantime - either Slacko or Carolina are good enough now to be your sole desktop (if you want them to). Or if you really like Solus, 1.3 (Eveline) is still very usable and can be updated from the Debian repos whenever this is needed.

Finally got around to trying the latest Solus alpha..... for what little is incuded (pretty stripped down} things seem to be working well.

Code:

live@solusos ~
$ uname -r
3.10.6
live@solusos ~
$

To install packages (repository is fairly empty} I had to update the repo by running pisi -ur in the treminal .......to install Geany I ran pisi -it geany as root of course. Pisi is a very capable package manager , ported from Pardus , but it takes a minute to learn the correct commands. I recommend starting with pisi help.

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